Stemming can improve retrieval accuracy, but stemmers are language-specific. Character n-gram tokenization achieves many of the benefits of stemming in a language independent way,...
This paper tackles the problem of term ambiguity, especially for biomedical literature. We propose and evaluate two methods of Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) for biomedical terms ...
To improve the accuracy in terms of precision and recall of an audio information retrieval system we have created a domainspecific ontology (a collection of key concepts and their...
Content-based image retrieval in astronomy needs methods that can deal with an image content made of noisy and diffuse structures. This motivates investigations on how information ...
Abstract. In the area of information retrieval, the dimension of document vectors plays an important role. Firstly, with higher dimensions index structures suffer the "curse o...